“Intelligent design” has no scientific application unless and until you are introduced to the corporeal designer and can give it the specifications of what you want produced.
ID posits a really good supernatural consulting subcontractor.
“ID posits a really good supernatural consulting subcontractor.”
It doesn’t say anything about the nature of the consulting subcontractor - other than it’s intelligent, i.e. that it can create something very similar in architecture to a computer using organic molecules instead of electronics.
Check out those books - you’ll be in for quite a pleasant surprise and an awakening.
Six months ago before reading them, like you, I thought ID was just a euphemism for creationism, sort of like “progressive” is a euphemism for socialist. After reading them, especially as presented by Meyer as a serious scientific work, I’ve done a 180.
And it may not convince you of ID. As I’ve said, I’m not 100% there myself, but it will definitely disabuse you of your belief in Darwin’s evolution and its derivatives.
So it may leave you in a state of limbo - that we still have a lot of work to do in trying to understand where life came from and how it changes, and there’s nothing wrong with being in that state - much better than believing in something that’s not true.
You would be like an alchemist who after banging his head on the wall a thousand times trying to change lead into gold, finally accepts that alchemy doesn’t explain how matter works and thus restarts from scratch. Eventually someone will discover Chemistry.